Synthetic, dissolving plates ease repairs of nasal septum defects

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 05:21 in Health & Medicine

Attaching cartilage to plates made of the resorbable material polydioxanone appears to facilitate corrective surgery on the nasal septum, the thin cartilage separating the two airways, according to a report in the January/February issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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